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Police seek public’s help in Houlton homicide investigation
Maine State Police announced Monday night that the death of a 61-year-old Houlton man had been ruled a homicide, and sought the …
POLL QUESTION
How we survived a subzero night in a snow shelter
30 mins agoUNITY | Our night in a snow cave hadn’t even begun — heck, the cave itself hadn’t yet been shoveled out — when the …
Kyle Dube’s ex-girlfriend: ‘He told me that he had killed Nichole’ Cable
BANGOR | An ex-girlfriend of the man accused of using Facebook to lure 15-year-old Nichole Cable to her death told jurors Monday morning that …
REGION:
Jewish Community Alliance gets $2.5 million gift for community center
29 mins agoPORTLAND — Spring meetings with neighbors and city officials are expected as the Jewish Community …
STATE & CAPITOL (blog)
Daily Brief: The state of higher education, and a hard number for Dems
2 hours ago Good morning, Maine. The troubled state of Maine’s public system of higher education, Maine’s flagging …
- How chocolate cake led to Mexican drug kingpin’s arrest
- Gorham man gets 70 months for drug trafficking, firearms charges
- Tougher laws likely legacy of Disneyland measles outbreak
- NASA satellite nears unexplored dwarf planet Ceres
- Conn. man found guilty of murdering ‘Law & Order’ actress
- Magnitude 6.4 quake strikes off Indonesia, no reports of damage
Opinion
EDITORIALS
Boosting tourism in rural Maine will take more than a national park
The town councils in Millinocket, East Millinocket and Medway have spent a lot of time discussing the possibility of a nearby national park. This sometimes …
Sports
Poll Question
Maine will need top-notch goaltending to advance in first-round Hockey East series
ORONO | Quality goaltending is the key component to long playoff runs and championships in hockey. It is a must even for high-scoring, offensive-minded …
Health
Health advocates: Axing community anti-smoking programs ‘like killing Peter to pay Paul’
AUGUSTA | Health groups, doctors, students and others turned out in force Monday at the State House to oppose a budget initiative that would …
Business
As New England freezes, natural gas prices also stay low
NEW YORK — What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, tumultuous weather in the Northeast caused record natural gas price spikes and forced …
Living
EMMET MEARA
The color of a dress doesn’t matter if you’re colorblind
I don’t give a tinker’s damn what anyone else says. That dress was gold and white. You might have been lost in a snow drift …
Outdoors
ACT OUT WITH AISLINN (blog)
Where in the woods am I?
Before attending the Cabin Fever Reliever in Brewer, Oreo and I went on a sunny snowshoe up a mountain on Friday. We actually didn’t make …
Food
IF MY COASTER COULD TALK (blog)
American on Tap – Bangor Edition
I heard about America on Tap in mid-December, that’s when I started emailing them to find out about their organization and about the two events …
Events
CULTURE SHOCK (blog)
Lady Antebellum to return to Bangor Waterfront, with guest Hunter Hayes
Lady Antebellum, multi-platinum country trio, will play its third concert at the Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion this summer, when they return to Bangor on Thursday, June …
- CULTURE SHOCK (blog): 5 Things To Do This Weekend, Feb. 27-March 1: Goodbye, February, you miserable so-n-so
- BACKSTAGE (blog): Penobscot Theatre Company presents “End Days”: a Maine Premiere
- GEORGE'S OUTDOOR NEWS (blog): Join us March 6,7 for Bob Duschesne’s Birding Adventure with Maine Huts and Trails
